A dimwitted Daily News delivery driver apparently wasn’t selling enough Snoozes to make ends meet, so he and a pal allegedly swiped copies of The Post from a newsstand – because he knew they’d sell like hot cakes.
Marc Rosenfeld, a union driver employed by the News, and his assistant, Scott Miller, were charged yesterday with grand larceny.
They took $2,100 worth of The Post and other assorted newspapers from an unsuspecting vendor at the LIRR station in Garden City, Nassau County police said.
Cops said Miller was hired by Rosenfeld to grab the papers. Rosenfeld would then put the bundles in his car, take them to Queens and hawk them on the street, cops said.
Newsstand owner Imran Lakhani said he was baffled when he showed up for work at 5 a.m. several times between last October and January, only to find that The Post and other papers were missing.
“They took The Post, the Times, they took everything – except for The Wall Street Journal, sometimes they would leave that,” he said.
The only paper the duo allegedly snubbed every day was the Daily News – leaving the 25-year-old businessman with nothing to offer his customers but the blurry, boring Snooze.
“It made me mad,” he said. “They are ruining my business.”
When Lakhani complained to the delivery services for his other papers, they all insisted he was getting his papers.
He eventually went to MTA police.
Cops put up cameras in the station, and eventually arrested Miller, 42, of Floral Park, and Rosenfeld, 56, of Middle Island.
Lt. Gregory Detwiller of the Nassau police said the two men are also being eyed for taking The Post and other papers from a Garden City supermarket and from another newsstand.
The News declined to comment, except to say it was cooperating with the investigation.
When asked if it was selling so few papers that its dealers had to start trying to resell The Post along their routes, a Daily News spokesperson only laughed and again declined to comment.
Additional reporting by Jeremy Olshan
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